The Situation

Travis Niekamp, Linebackers Coach, Eastern Washington University. AFM subscriber since 2003. In this particular circumstance, we would definitely be playing the percentages. With the down and distance being third and ten our philosophy would be to stop the pass. Field position always plays a major role because of the fact that they are potentially in 4 down territory. This plays a factor because the offense could be treating it like a neutral down knowing that they have two downs (third and fourth) to get 10 yards. Taking all of this into account, we would love to give the illusion out of our 4-3 package that we are coming on an all out blitz and then, on the snap of the ball, bail to our 2 deep coverage. By doing this, hopefully, we can talk the offense out of running the football because of the blitz threat and convince them to be one dimensional and throw the football. All three